Theeffect of written and visual media on nutrition and physical activity in adolescence

TheEffect of Written and Visual Media on Nutrition and Physical Activity i n Adolescence Thisresearchwasplanned and conducted as descriptiveresearchaimed at determiningtheeffect of written and visualmedia on nutrition and physicalactivitystatus of adolescents. Thesample of theresearchconsists of 182 studentsaged 14-17whowereeducated in Sakarya Serdivan Mithatpaşa Anatolian High School and Private Sakarya Uğur Değişim Anatolian High School in Sakarya between May 2017 and June 2017. A questionnaire of 25questionswaspreparedbytheresearcher, takingadvantage of previousscientificstudies on nutritionhabits and theinfluence of themedia on nutrition and physicalactivity. Inthiscontext, personalinformation, eatinghabits, socialmediaeffects and physicalactivitystatuswerequestioned. Thequestionnaireswereappliedbyexplainingbytheresearcher. SPSS version20.0 program wasused in thestatisticalcalculations. Percentage, frequencydistribution,chi-square test statistic and mann whitney u test of thedescriptivestatisticalmethodswereused in theevaluation of thefindings. Incaseswherethe P valuewaslessthan 0.05, thedifferencebetweenthegroupswasconsideredsignificant. Whenthefindingswereevaluated, it wasdeterminedthat54.5% of thestudentsskippedmeals and themostskippedmealswerebreakfastwith 63.3%. Therewas a significantdifferencebetweenthegenders (P <0,05) withstudentsattemptingtoweakenorloseweightbybeinginfluencedbythemedia. A significantdifferencewasfoundbetweentheattitudes of theschoolsparticipating in theresearch on thearticles / newsaboutthechips and energydrinks in themedia (P <0,05). It has beenfoundthattheaveragephysicalactivity of thestudents is 62,15 minutesperday. Whilemoreresearch on thissubject is needed, it is thoughtthat it will be beneficialtosupporttheadolescents and theirfamilieswithnutritioneducation in thelight of theinformationsupportedbyscientificstudies, toeducatetheadolescents on nutrition and diet in thewritten and visualmediaconsciously and toencouragetheadolescentsaboutphysicalactivity.